Posted by Al on 02/01/05 23:15

I can't use a bad URL because the fopen fails.

I assumed from reading the manual that if I started stream_set_timeout() it
would monitor the stream and do something when it reached the timeout, either
truncate my data stream or show up as [timed_out] => true. It doesn't appear to
do anything.

I can set the timeout down to microseconds and/or read a 4mb remote file and
nothing appears to happen. The 4mb file is read fully and [timed_out] => never
changes for small or large files, microseconds or 600 seconds.

I did a function_exists() on stream_set_timeout() and it's fine and I have all
errors on and nothing unusual shows up.

php version is 4.3.10

Richard Lynch wrote:

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> Al wrote:
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>>Hi Richard, thanks for the help.
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>>Note I have the timeout set for 1 microsec, have tried several values, eg,
>>100ms, 1 sec, etc. I even used a 4mb file and it did nothing.
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>>It seems as if stream_set_timeout() does nothing.
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>>Note in socket_get_status(), [timed_out] => is always false.
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> timed_out
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> / \
> / \
> Lost data because your time-out expired
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> Possibly you have such a good connection, it never times out.
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> Try connection to something that's not there -- Like:
> $URL_full = 'http://example.com';
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